ASUS ExpertBook B9450CEA

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Hardware PCI/USB ID Working?
GPU 8086:9a49 Yes
Ethernet (via mHDMI adapter) 8086:15fc Yes
Wireless 8086:a0f0 Yes
Bluetooth 8087:0026 Yes
Touchpad 04f3:3134 Yes
Webcam HD/IR 13d3:56eb Yes
Speakers 8086:a0c8 Yes
Microphone 8086:a0c8 Yes
Keyboard backlight - Yes
TPM (2.0) unknown Untested
Fingerprint reader unknown Untested

This article applies to B9450CEA-XH75 (16G RAM/1TB SSD) and B9450CEA-XH77 (32G RAM/2TB SSD).

Summary

The 2nd generation of ASUS ExpertBook B9450 with 11th Gen Intel CPU with Intel Xe graphics.

Models are B9450CEA-* compared to B9450FA-* of the 1st generation.

BIOS

To boot from a USB stick, you may have to turn off Fast Boot and Secure Boot: How to boot the system from USB flash drive/CD-ROM.

Warning: Even though the model line is B9450CEA, in BIOS and on the official support page it is indicated as B9400CEA.

dmidecode will also display Product Name as ASUS EXPERTBOOK B9400CEA_B9450CEA and BIOS Version as, e.g., B9400CEA.301.

Audio

This laptop requires firmware in order for the soundcard to work. See Advanced Linux Sound Architecture#ALSA firmware.

Suspend mode

See Power management/Suspend and hibernate#Changing suspend method.

Function keys

Key Visible? Marked? Effect
Fn+Esc No Yes Enables Fn lock
Fn+F1 Yes Yes XF86AudioMute
Fn+F2 Yes Yes XF86AudioLowerVolume
Fn+F3 Yes Yes XF86AudioRaiseVolume
Fn+F4 Yes Yes XF86MonBrightnessDown
Fn+F5 Yes Yes XF86MonBrightnessUp
Fn+F6 Yes Yes XF86TouchpadToggle
Fn+F7 No Yes Switches keyboard backlight
Fn+F8 Yes Yes p
Fn+F9 Yes Yes l
Fn+F10 No Yes N/A
Fn+F11 Yes Yes S
Fn+F12 No Yes N/A